>>6225096The NCR was using rail transport to shuttle things around, particularly for their concrete setup, so we will have at least one functional locomotive and some wagons to hand somewhere. There are several more locomotives and quite a number of wagons sitting around in various railyards around the Vegas area we can restore as well plus some wrecked ones that would take more work or can be cannibalised for parts and whatever we can find further afield. We could make basic wagons fairly easily ourselves too with the help of the NV Steel foundry.
Fair point yourself, though the Boneyard offers much more easily accessible scrap that no one will miss while we're having to pry rebar out of walls and decide whether we want to pull down pylons we might need.
Upstream, the Colorado disappears off into the empty desert and and is too shallow, fast-flowing, dangerous and rocky to navigate anyway, not to mention the Glen Canyon Dam being in the way (it should still be standing). Downstream, the river is littered with more dams to obstruct navigation (Davis, Palo Verde, Imperial, Laguna and Morelos may or may not have gone over the last 200y since they're just rockfill dams but Parker and Headgate Rock are made of sterner stuff and are probably still there) but we could strip Riviera and Lake Havasu City quite easily if they aren't full of tribals or raiders being all picrel. If the Davis Dam has failed, it would have caused a lot of damage in the Mohave Valley when it went.
>>6225123I wonder if Fantastic managed to annoy the cogboys enough to get shot when they retook Helios One.
I'm unsure of whether the Legion's Luddism extends to a hate of motor vehicles like trains. Their technophobia is inconsistent and not absolute, and it's not clear how much of their backwardness is deliberate suppression of technology and how much is just general lack of industrialisation and resources. That said, they do take trade seriously and will hopefully be open for business, even if Caesar won't have given up on his plans for Vegas.
The Sharecrappers does remind me of why they're here - the NCR's looming food shortage. If we can kickstart agriculture at scale, I imagine we could find buyers to the west for any exports. It also means they might not be able to sell us much if we do try and buy it in at any point.
